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  • A Lesson in Power

    A Lesson in Power0

    The unifying strand in conservatism as a movement and the GOP as a political operation is a superficial desire to limit and eschew power. This position is sloganized in exhortations against “big government,” against “socialism,” against the noxious fumes of power. But movement conservatives, like their political counterparts, are quite all right with both the

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  • A Lesson in Human Dignity From Stone Age Ireland

    A Lesson in Human Dignity From Stone Age Ireland0

    Five thousand, two hundred years ago, long before Stonehenge, long before the Pyramids, farming communities in the Boyne Valley of Ireland built a gigantic passage tomb, called Newgrange. It covers 4,500 square meters, or more than one acre, of ground. The builders heaped alternating layers of stone and earth until it was 12 meters high.

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  • A Legal Immigrant’s Lament

    A Legal Immigrant’s Lament0

    In the late 1940s, my father, Kenneth Billingsley, a veteran of World War II, was working in a mine in the northern reaches of Manitoba. So through no fault of my own, I was born a long way north of the border. Despite childhood stints in Alliance, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, when I sought to

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  • A Karen Calls Cops on a Kid

    A Karen Calls Cops on a Kid4

    A Meridian, ID, resident recently called the police department to demand a cop hurry over and apprehend an illegal solicitor—someone who’d knocked on her door to peddle without a permit. As reported by Deputy David Gomez, a School Resource Officer in Idaho City, on his lively Facebook Page, the caller told the cops she was

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  • A Job Listing That Confirms Our Fears about Americans

    A Job Listing That Confirms Our Fears about Americans0

    The Huffington Post unearthed a humorous gem in the want ads the other day. Posting on JournalismJobs.com, a small town Idaho newspaper owner named Dan Hammes offered a reporter job to an individual “who reads.” The description declares: It goes without saying the person we hire will be able to write, spell and edit. What

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  • A Jewish Gravedigger’s Eyewitness Account of Nazi Camps

    A Jewish Gravedigger’s Eyewitness Account of Nazi Camps0

    According to History.com, June 1 is the anniversary of the first report of Hitler’s death camps. Curious to see what the report contained, I hunted up a copy and found one in Martin Gilbert’s book The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe During the Second World War. Gilbert prefaces the report by explaining

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